Ambler man admits guilt in knife-point holdup

“What’s this all about?” he asked as he and another man were arrested in August. “It’s not like we committed an armed robbery or something.”

Yet months after his encounter with the cops, the 31-year-old Ambler man was in Montgomery County Court on Wednesday to admit that yes, he was involved in the knife-point holdup of a woman in the borough.

Lee, of the 400 block of School Street, was sentenced to time served — from Aug. 22 — to 23 months in the county jail. He pleaded guilty to theft and possession of an instrument of crime related to the robbery at South Locust and Center streets in Ambler.

After completing parole, Lee will be on probation for a year and will have to pay $42 in restitution to the victim, who was robbed about 1:40 a.m. Aug. 22.

According to a criminal complaint, the woman and her infant were in a car stopped near the intersection when two men, one armed with a knife, forced their way inside.

The woman jumped into the back seat to protect her sleeping infant as the men rifled through the inside before fleeing, the complaint said.

Police spotted two men matching the victim’s description and took Lee and a reported accomplice into custody. A pat-down search of Lee turned up a pocketknife, police said.

Police identified Eric Forcey, 27, of Carlisle, Cumberland County, as the second suspect. His trial is pending.